“In short, the whole soul, ensnared by the allurements of the flesh, seeks its happiness on the earth. To meet this disease, the Lord makes his people sensible of the vanity of the present life, by a constant proof of its miseries.”

“The heart also, engrossed with avarice, ambition, and lust, is weighed down and cannot rise above them. In short, the whole soul, ensnared by the allurements of the flesh, seeks its happiness on the earth. To meet this disease, the Lord makes his people sensible of the vanity of the present life, by a constant [...]

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October 15 – “Let the world be as it will, if we cannot rejoice in the world, yet we may rejoice in the Lord. His presence makes any condition comfortable.”

“Christ will not break the bruised reed…FOR OURSELVES, 1. What should we learn from this, but to `come boldly to the throne of grace’ (Heb. 4:16) in all our grievances? Shall our sins discourage us, when he appears there only for sinners? Are you bruised? Be of good comfort, he calls you. Conceal not your [...]

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October 13 – “…bruising is required before conversion that so the Spirit may make way for himself into the heart by levelling all proud, high thoughts, and that we may understand ourselves to be what indeed we are by nature.”

“This bruising is required before conversion that so the Spirit may make way for himself into the heart by levelling all proud, high thoughts, and that we may understand ourselves to be what indeed we are by nature. We love to wander from ourselves and to be strangers at home, till God bruises us by [...]

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August 18 – “…and yet without tribulations and temptations we can now no more grow than herbs or corn without rain.”

“Suffer we must; ere we were born, God decreed it; and it is easier to complain of his decree than to change it. It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised us again; fears and doubtings shake us; and yet without fear and doubtings [...]

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Christ suffered before us

“Christ takes us through no darker rooms than He went through before.” Richard Baxter

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The wrong perspective

“Our troubles can nearly all be traced to our persistence in looking at the immediate problems themselves, instead of looking at them in the light of God.” Martyn Lloyd Jones, Faith Tried and Triumphant, p 49.

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Glorify God in the fire

“O may God put me into one furnace after another, that my soul may be transparent, that I may see God as He is. My brethren, we need to be purged. How apt we are to want to go to heaven upon a featherbed…the grand thing is to learn how to glorify God in the fire.” [...]

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